Winchester made a total of 465,980 M1917 Enfields. Markings: Receiver: U.S./W/1. Ordnance bomb/Star in circle. Barrel: W/Ordnance bomb/7-17. Springfield Research Serivce: 1- - Presented to Pres. - Serial numbers compliments of Frank Mallory, armscollectors.com. Web site photo showing Springfield. Gun Collections Online. Specialists in Marketing Your Gun Collections Home Gun Collection Appraisals Sell Your Guns Serial Number Lookup. The table below represents the serial numbers and production dates of Winchester Model 12 Shotguns. May 23, 2017. The receiver ring of the rifle was stamped “U.S./Model of 1917/ name of maker/serial number”. The barrel was stamped on top (behind the front sight) with the initials of the maker (“W”, “R”, or “E”), a flaming bomb insignia and the month and year of production. The receiver ring of very early Winchester rifles.

Contents • • • • • • • • Design [ ] The Model 1895 was the first Winchester rifle to feature a box magazine located underneath the action instead of the tubular magazine design, which had remained fundamentally unchanged from the. This allowed the rifle to safely chamber military and hunting cartridges with (pointed) bullets. The M1895 was also the last of the lever-action rifles to be designed by, and featured a rear locking bolt as in his previous designs dating back to the. The M1895 is the strongest lever-action rifle Winchester has produced, designed to handle the increased pressures generated by the more powerful cartridges entering common use at the time of its introduction. By today’s standards however, the design is considered relatively weak, and not suited to high pressure loads. Around serial number 5000, a new receiver profile was introduced which had fluted (scalloped) sides, as opposed to the original flat sided design. This new receiver reduced the weight of the rifle by a small amount, and increased the width by 1/16 of an inch.

By serial number 6000, it is thought that the last of the flat sided M1895s left the factory. These early rifles are now exceedingly rare. Military [ ] Between 1915 and 1917 approximately 300,000 M1895's were manufactured for the army of the, accounting for about 70% of total production of the rifles prior to 1936 when the M1895 was discontinued. Chambered in, these versions were unusual for a lever-action rifle in that they also had a charger guide, allowing the M1895 rifle to be reloaded by the same used in the bolt-action rifle.

Rifles made for the Russian contract had a longer than standard barrel fitted with an extended forestock and lug. Initial delivery of the rifles was delayed because adaptation to Russian standards, particularly the charger guide, proved more difficult than expected. Additional delays resulted from incompetent and obstructive Russian inspectors, who refused to use Winchester-made test gauges despite no Russian gauges existing, insisted that test ammunition be shipped from Russia (instead of using readily available Winchester ammunition made on Russian contract), and often rejected rifles for irrelevant flaws such as wood grain in the stock being insufficiently straight. Download Lagu Zapin Siti Nurhaliza there. Winchester later sold these rejected rifles on the US commercial market. Russia issued many of their Winchester Model 1895 rifles to troops from and the, especially the. At least 9,000 Model 1895 rifles are known to have been provided by the in 1936 to the for use in the.

Other nations adopted the rifle in more limited numbers. The United States ordered 10,000 in caliber.30/40 Krag for the, but the war ended before they arrived at the front. These rifles were marked 'U.S.' Atop the receiver ring and fitted with stock furniture similar to the including the short 8 5⁄ 16 inches (21.1 cm) knife-type bayonet.